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Example Question #1 : Percents
330 is what percent of 11?
This problem can be solved by the equation: , where is the answer in terms of a percentage. To solve for both sides are divided by : . This can be simplified to: . Now is converted to a percentage to find the answer.
as a percentage is
Example Question #2 : Percents
Three years ago, Anum invested $25,000 in a new mutual fund account. The value of the account increased by 15% during the first year, increased by 7% during the second year, and decreased by 15% during the third year. What is the approximate value of the account today?
The first year increase of 15% can be represented as 1.15; the second year increase of 7% can be represented as 1.07; and the third year decrease of 15% can be represented as 0.85.
Multiply the original investment by each annual change.
25,000(1.15)(1.07)(0.85) = 26,148
approx. $26,000
Example Question #2 : Percents
Max the cat has 70 toy mice. If 30% of the mice are new, how many mice are not new?
40
30
60
21
49
49
If 30% of the mice are new, then 70% are not new.
Example Question #4 : Percents
37% of the greatest common factor of 50 and 350 is
The greatest common factor of 50 and 350 is simply 50. Now we must take 37% of 50.
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Example Question #5 : Percents
A shirt costs $60. The price was then increased by 30%. What is the new price as expressed in terms of the original price?
Example Question #6 : Percents
A GMAT score increases from 450 to 540. By what percent did the score increase?
Example Question #7 : Percents
Out of 60 students, 15 prefer to study at night. What percent of students prefer nighttime studying?
25%
60%
15%
4%
25%
Cross multiply
Divide both sides by 60
Example Question #8 : Percents
Geri earns a commission of 22.5% on everything she sells for KM Cosmetics. As of the fifteenth of the month, she has sold $2,100 worth of cosmetics. How much more in cosmetics must she sell in order to earn at least $900 commission for the month?
She has already sold enough to earn $900 commission.
Commission can be calculated by muliplying the commission rate - 22.5%, or 0.225 - by the amount of sales, so the amount of sales needed can be found by dividing the desired commission by 0.225.
Since Geri has already sold $2,100 worth of cosmetics, she needs to sell more.
Example Question #1 : Percents
A number is multiplied by six; then its decimal point is moved to the left three spaces. This is the same as taking what percent of the number?
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Let's do these two things to 100. Multiplying 100 by 6 yields 600; moving the decimal point three places left changes 600, or 600.0, to 0.60.
This means that the new number is 0.60% , or %, of the original number.
Example Question #10 : Percents
A number is divided by two; then its decimal point is moved to the left two spaces. This is the same as taking what percent of the number?
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Let's do these two things to 100. Dividing 100 by 2 yields 50; moving the decimal point two places left changes 50, or 50.0, to 0.50.
This means that the new number is 0.50% , or %, of the original number.